The Movie: Flicka

Flicka Flicka is a center of attention wrenching movie roughly the love of family, nature, and horses. This movie shows you the summer of a ranchers daughter. Katy McLauglin (Alison Lohman) is the teenaged daughter of a horse rancher who is looking to hand over the reins of the family business. age her family is on the ranch, Katy is studing at a private school tint like her knowledge kind of misfit. One day, while out riding, Katy finds a beautiful black mustang and instantly feels an emotional connection with the wild horse.Katy begs her father, deplume McLaughlin (Tim McGraw), to let her keep the animal exactly he is convinced that the mustang would be bad for both his thoroughbred horses and his daughter. But Katy is certain she can divorce the strong-willed mustang and make her a champion. Katy then hangs her Flicka, a name meaning beautiful, young girl. As she struggles to tame the headstrong Flicka, she as well as tries to prove to her father that she knows horses as well as he does and that shes all(prenominal) bit as capable of running the ranch as her brother. The vex for respect and the love of an animal will make you want a ranchers life.And a beautiful horse named Flicka. Flicka shows you the journey that a young teenage girl takes to earn the respect that she rightfully deserves. Katys story is like many another(prenominal) stories of women over the years. The fight to be seen as an equal and not as a servent. As we all may know in the joined States men had the right to pick out long before women did. Women fought for the take on to vote for years. Some, like Susan B. Anthony, were put in jail or shunned for fighting for this right. It took attest World War I for women to recieve this right, but with a couple restrictions.Susan B. Anthony was innate(p) February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long active traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice. later teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to accost at temperance meetings. This experience led her to join the womens rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage. Ignoring the cruel works and abuse, Anthony traveled and lectured across the nation for the vote.She also campaigned for the abolition of slavery, the right for women to own their own property and keep their earnings, and she advocated for womens labor organizations. In 1900, Anthony persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women. Anthony, who never married, was bellicose and compassionate by nature. She had a strong mind and a great(p) ability to fight for what she believed in. She remained active until her death on March 13, 1906. In the movie, Flicka, the McLaughlin family fights to keep their beloved ranch.With the trouble to pay the bills, big time bankers come come to the ranch hoping to talk the family into selling t he ranch and all the cut pole with it. With the knowledge that selling means the desturction of their lovely home and the land ring it, they fight to make all the money they can. Needing the cash, surcharge McLaughlin sees the perfect chance to earn money and get his daughter away from the parasite that she calls Flicka. Rob calls up the head chairman for the local rodeo and makes the deal to sell mop up the beautiful mustang. When Katy finds out that her horse was sold shes heartbroken and furious.But shes not about to give up. With the hope to get her horse back Katy enters the Bucking Broncos contest in the rodeo in hope to win and use the money to buy back her horse. After realizing that it wasnt going to be as simple as she imagination she takes her horse and rides her into the woods. With night coming and a serious storm, Katy and Flicka are in trouble. After finally getting onto some of their land Katy feels safe. Just as she was about to ride herself and Ficka the rest of the way home they are attacked by a mountain lion. Flicka is able to scare away the cat but sustains major injuries in the process.Once be Katy is brought home but has fallen sick. While Katy fights for her life, Flicka fights for hers. Then Rob decides that it isnt fair for an animal to suffer. Then Katy speaks the most dangerous line in the story saying its ok daddy, you can bulge out us. The next morning Katys temperature has broken and Flicka is safe and healing. The two found each other at the moment of need and have get the better of all the odds. This beautiful movie distributed by 20th Century Fox, shows viewing audience what it takes for a woman to fight for her right and what she loves.